To the Editor:
The year 2020 started on such a high note. Household income was up 6.8 percent, even higher for minorities. We had record high employment and low unemployment, high home ownership (highest ever for minorities), lower taxes, a drop in illegal immigration, a rising stock market and a safer, more peaceful world. Life was good under President Trump: a thriving economy in the land of the free and the brave.
Then China released COVID-19 and countries all over the world suffered.
October 21, 2020
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